Humans and most mammals can determine the spatial origin of sounds with remarkable acuity. We use this ability all the time — crossing the street; locating an…
Also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, the progressive, fatal condition, in which the motor neurons that control movement and breathing gradually cease to…
The display, whose diagonal dimension is 1.5 meters, can show all of the data and facts that are necessary for decision-making. At the heart of this solution…
The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that the number of visiting students declined by 3% on the previous winter semester.All in all, the…
Being born preterm goes hand in hand with an increased risk for neuro-cognitive deficits. Psychologists from the Ruhr-Universität Bochum and the University of…
It is at this facility that a total of 1,200 cars for the “Lastochka” (Rus-sian for “Little Swallow”) trains to be operated by Russian Rail-ways (RZD) are to…
The seep lies deep in the western North Atlantic Ocean, far from the life-sustaining energy of the sun. Mussels blanketing the the seep rely on bacteria that…
In an article just published on-line in PNAS, researchers from Wageningen University (Netherlands) report an exception to this rule: when small,…
A major campaign using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and several other satellites shows magnetars may be more diverse – and common – than previously thought.
That is, according to Roshni George and Donald Graves, scientists at UC Santa Barbara. The results of their study, “Interaction of Cinnamaldehyde and…
Chinese and U.S. scientists have used virus isolated from a person who died from H7N9 avian influenza infection to determine whether the virus could infect and…
A team of researchers has captured images of green alga consuming bacteria, offering a glimpse at how early organisms dating back more than 1 billion years may…
From Virginia to Florida, there is a prehistoric shoreline that, in some parts, rests more than 280 feet above modern sea level. The shoreline was carved by…
More than 13,000 ships per year, carrying more than 284 million tons of cargo, transit the Panama Canal each year, generating roughly $1.8 billion dollars in…
In Parkinson’s disease, the protein “alpha-synuclein” aggregates and accumulates within neurons. Specific areas of the brain become progressively affected as…
Created in the laboratory of Jeffrey Long, professor of chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, the material is a metal-organic framework, or MOF,…
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